Measures of the food environment: A systematic review of the field, 2007–2015

LA Lytle, RL Sokol - Health & place, 2017 - Elsevier
Background Many studies have examined the relationship between the food environment
and health-related outcomes, but fewer consider the integrity of measures used to assess …

[HTML][HTML] Foodscape: A scoping review and a research agenda for food security-related studies

S Vonthron, C Perrin, CT Soulard - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Since 1995, the term 'foodscape', a contraction of food and landscape, has been used in
various research addressing social and spatial disparities in public health and food systems …

Dietary inequalities: what is the evidence for the effect of the neighbourhood food environment?

C Black, G Moon, J Baird - Health & place, 2014 - Elsevier
This review summarises the evidence for inequalities in community and consumer nutrition
environments from ten previous review articles, and also assesses the evidence for the …

A photovoice documentation of the role of neighborhood physical and social environments in older adults' physical activity in two metropolitan areas in North America

A Mahmood, H Chaudhury, YL Michael… - Social science & …, 2012 - Elsevier
A substantial body of evidence indicates that regular engagement in moderate-intensity
physical activity on most days of the week is sufficient for older adults to achieve positive …

Food deserts: Governing obesity in the neoliberal city

J Shannon - Progress in Human Geography, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Studies of 'food deserts', neighborhoods in which healthy food is expensive and/or difficult to
find, have received much recent political attention. These studies reflect the popularity of a …

[HTML][HTML] Identifying food deserts and swamps based on relative healthy food access: a spatio-temporal Bayesian approach

H Luan, J Law, M Quick - International journal of health geographics, 2015 - Springer
Background Obesity and other adverse health outcomes are influenced by individual-and
neighbourhood-scale risk factors, including the food environment. At the small-area scale …

Comparing measures of accessibility to urban supermarkets for transit and auto users

MJ Widener - The Professional Geographer, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Research on access to healthy foods often emphasizes the spatial proximity of residents to
food stores like supermarkets as a way to gauge overall accessibility. Much of the literature …

Breadlines, victory gardens, or human rights?: examining food insecurity discourses in Canada

A Tung, R Rose-Redwood… - … des études sur …, 2022 - canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca
Long before the exacerbating effects of COVID-19, household food insecurity (HFI) has been
a persistent yet hidden problem in wealthy nations such as Canada, where it has been …

Neighbourhood food environments revisited: When food deserts meet food swamps

M Yang, H Wang, F Qiu - The Canadian Geographer/Le …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This study uses service area–based coverage and various count regression methods to
assess neighbourhood‐level healthy and unhealthy food environments, and food access …

Modeling complex human systems: An adaptable framework of urban food deserts

KC Abel, KM Faust - Sustainable cities and society, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Food Deserts (FDs) are an expansive problem with cascading effects on quality of
life and health outcomes. Simulation modeling of food access within FDs may help decision …